Oscars

The Academy has released its shortlist of Visual Effects Oscar nominee hopefuls and they include the frontrunners like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant but snubbed some high profile box office flops like Pan and In the Heart of the Sea (both from Warner Bros). Two Marvel movies made the cut (Avengers: Age …

Here’s who’s won the critics and industry awards so far this season, leading up to the big one – The Oscars. After dominating the critics awards, Mad Max: Fury Road and Spotlight took a back seat to The Big Short, which won the Producers Guild of America award, the most surefire precursor to the Best Picture Oscar. But then, …

The 9-film shortlist for the Foreign Language Film Oscar was revealed today and while the expected mentions for Hungary’s Son of Saul and France’s Mustang made the list, Brazil’s The Second Mother was surprisingly left off, as was Taiwan’s The Assassin, Austria’s Goodnight Mommy and Sweden’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. Festival favorite Rams, from …

Although it’s not too much of a surprise for the original score of Love & Mercy to miss out here (too much of Brian Wilson’s music merged with original music), the snub of the score from The Revenant is a sting. The music branch is a stingy, archaic bunch and the three credited composers for the film (Bryce Dessner, …

305 films have been deemed eligible to compete for the 2016 Oscars, down from 323 last year. For the full list go here. To be eligible, a film must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31st, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days. The Academy defines a feature film as one …

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title: “Happy” from “Altered Minds” “Home” from “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” “None Of Them Are You” from “Anomalisa” “Stem To The Rose” from “Becoming Bulletproof” “The Mystery Of Your Gift” from “Boychoir” …

With the two major critics groups (LAFCA and NYFCC), the National Board of Review (NBR), Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and now The Golden Globes having had their say on winners and nominees for 2015 films it’s time to where things are. I’ll do another post-mortem once the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) and …

15 non-fiction films of a list of 124 have made it to the next round in hopes of an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. They include Amy, Cartel Land, The Look of Silence and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Nominations will be announced January 14th, 2016 and the Academy Awards will be held February 28th, 2016. …

2020 Best Picture Predictions

1917 (Universal) December 25
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony/Columbia) November 22
Ford v. Ferrari (20th Century Fox) November 15
Harriet (Focus Features) November 1
The Irishman (Netflix)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight) October 18
Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) January 17, 2020
The Laundromat (Netflix)
Little Women (Sony/Columbia) December 25
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Sony/Columbia) July 26

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